Word: quilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Side of the Angels. Wadsworth imbued the Guardian with his own puckishness, his donnish verbosity, his love for the elegant phrase. The paper often exasperates other newsmen with its quill-pen essayist's approach to the day's hard news, is designed for those who lounge as they read. It often irritates politicians with toplofty editorials suggesting that the paper is not only on the side of the angels but right alongside them in heaven. Snorted Winston Churchill in 1950: "What a remarkable position of superiority...
...past, when "540" - as Subscription Service is called for its street number on North Michigan Avenue - put down addresses practically with quill pens and bent stencils, magazines often went every which way but the right one. We heard about that from our readers, believe me! Now, I'm happy to say, our 1,100 people at 540, aided by 257 electronic business machines and 20 photoelectric addressing machines, can handle all of their correspondence, and print 377,900,400 address labels a year besides with a barest minimum of error. Last week our circulation people in New York celebrated...
...diverse musical attractions as the Scots Guards Regimental Band, Violinist David Oistrakh and the Obernkirchen Children's Choir have one thing in common during their U.S. tours: in the program booklets or in ads appears a small, well-fed cherub who seems to be doodling with a long quill. This is the trademark of Angel Records, only two years old and one of the brightest, most enterprising record companies in the U.S. today...
...pundit called the merger "the miracle on Thirty-Fourth Street." Few people, remembering the rancorous night when John L. Lewis pulled his Committee of Industrial Organizations out of the American Federation of Labor, could imagine the new labor group as anything except a battleground for rival bigwigs. When Mike Quill and some of the more militant CIO leaders protested the merger heatedly, observers predicted that the miraculous enterprise would shortly founder...
...issued by Francis I or Louis XIII, and use the final and authoritative construction thus put upon it to pour back the new wine into the old bottles of an archaic jurisprudence. Before the last war the Cour des Comptes still used the same antiquated accounting system, the same quill pens, and the same bewildering piles of ledgers that were used in the Chambre des Comptes of the last Capetians [circa 1300]." The typewriter and the calculating machine were added only after...